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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Preface | |
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| Writing Theological Rhetorics Well | |
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| Writing Theology Well in Its Own Context | |
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| Starting Points | |
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| The Sociorhetorical Context of Writing Theology | |
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| The Sociohistorical Context of Writing Theology | |
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| What Is Theology and Why Do Theologians Write It? | |
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| Writing Theology as a Rhetorical Art with Augustine of Hippo | |
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| Writing Theology as a Scholastic Science with Thomas Aquinas | |
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| Writing Theology as a Communal Language with Teresa of Avila | |
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| Writing Theology with Gutenberg's Printing Press and the Protestant Reformers | |
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| Rewriting Theology as Speech with Friedrich Schleiermacher | |
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| Writing Theology as a Theological Author with Albert Schweitzer | |
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| Writing Theology as Nonviolent Resistance with Martin Luther King, Jr. | |
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| Writing Theology as a Feminist Practice with Rebecca Chopp | |
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| Writing Theology in Our Own Context and Its Audiences | |
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| What Distinguishes Contemporary Theological Writing from Other Writing? | |
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| To Whom and for Whom Is Contemporary Theology Being Written? | |
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| Beginning a Theological Writing Assignment: Questions to Ask | |
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| Concluding Reflections: Writing Theology Well as an Act of Faith | |
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| Writing Theological Reflection Well: Rhetorics of Process, Problem Solving, and Proclamation | |
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| Starting Points | |
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| What Is Theological Reflection and Why Do Theologians Write It? | |
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| A Rhetoric of Process | |
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| A Rhetoric of Problem Solving | |
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| A Rhetoric of Proclamation | |
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| Writing Theological Reflection Papers: Purpose, Style, Voice | |
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| Writing the One-Page Theological Reflection Paper in Two Voices | |
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| Writing the One-Page Reflection Paper-An Overview | |
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| Writing the One-Page Pastoral Reflection Paper: "Why Do You Follow Jesus?" | |
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| Pre-writing the Pastoral Reflection Paper: Reading, Reflecting, Preparing | |
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| Reading the assignment | |
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| Reflecting on the task | |
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| Preparing | |
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| Freewriting or Outlining Draft # 1: Finding Out What You Want To Say | |
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| Freewriting | |
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| Outlining | |
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| "Writing That and Only That" | |
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| "Writing So That Others Will Want To Read It" | |
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| Reviewing, Revising, and Refining Papers: A Theological Writers Checklist | |
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| Concluding Reflections: Writing Theological Reflection Well | |
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| Writing Theological Argument Well: Rhetorics of Inquiry, Reading, Reflection, and Persuasion | |
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| Starting Points | |
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| What Is the Genre of Argument and Why Do People Write It? | |
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| The Deductive Path | |
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| The Inductive Path | |
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| What Is Theological Argument and Why Do Theologians Write It? | |
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| The Rhetorics of Theological Argument: Inquiry, Reading, Reflection, Persuasion | |
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| Inquiry | |
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| Reading | |
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| Reflection | |
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| Persuasion | |
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| Prerequisites of Writing Theological Argument in an Academic Voice | |
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| Taking a Position | |
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| Stating Premises and Defining Vocabulary | |
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| Mapping the Argument | |
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| Entering the Conversation | |
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| Writing the One-Page Systematic Reflection Paper: "Was Jesus a Feminist?" | |
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| Engaging the Question | |
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| Re-engaging the Readings | |
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| Developing a Thesis/Claim/"Answer" | |
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| Elucidating and/or Qualifying the Claim | |
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| Structuring the Argument (Grounds and Warrants) | |
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| Concluding the Draft, Counting the Words, Revising to Size | |
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| Writing the Theological Essay Examination Well: A "Blueprint" | |
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| Preparing for the Examination | |
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| Reading the Questions | |
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| Rehearsing Your Response | |
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| Writing the Examination | |
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| Some Final Suggestions | |
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| Concluding Reflections: Writing Theological Argument Well | |
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| Writing the Theological Essay Well: Rhetorics of Identification, Correlation, Suspicion, and Construction | |
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| Starting Points | |
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| What Is an Essay and Why Do People Write It? | |
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| What Is a Theological Essay and Why Do Theologians Write Them? | |
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| What Kinds of Theological Essays Are There and How Shall We Write Them? | |
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| What Is a Critical Theological Essay and How Shall We Write It? | |
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| What are the rhetorics of the critical theological essay? | |
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| Writing the Theological Summary Well: An Outline | |
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| Writing the Theological Book Review Well: An Outline | |
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| Writing the Theological Critique Well: An Outline | |
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| What Is a Constructive Theological Essay and How Shall We Write It? | |
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| What is a constructive theological essay? | |
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| What is a constructive method? | |
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| What Are the Rhetorics of a Constructive Theological Essay and How Do They Inform Its Writing? | |
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| The method of correlation | |
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| Charting the Rhetorics of the Constructive Theological Essay: Identification, Correlation, Suspicion, Construction | |
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| Writing the Constructive Theological Essay Well: A Map of "Correlation" | |
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| Writing the Constructive Theological Essay Well: A Structural Map | |
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| Writing a Constructive Theological Essay of Your Own: A Progressive Model | |
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| Concluding Reflections: Writing the Constructive Theological Essay Well | |
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| Writing Theological and Biblical Research Well | |
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| Writing Theological Research Well (I): Rhetorics of Research and Investigation | |
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| Starting Points | |
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| Approaching the Theological Writing and Research Process | |
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| Writing Theological Research Well: A Preliminary Map | |
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| What Is Research and What Makes People Do It? | |
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| What Is Theological Research and Why Do Theologians Do It? | |
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| How Does Writing Theological Research Differ from Other Kinds of Theological Writing? | |
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| The Form of the Question | |
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| A Methodology or Research Perspective | |
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| Sources | |
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| Conversation with the Present and the Past | |
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| Developing the Question into a Theological Research Claim | |
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| Narrowing Your Topic | |
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| Is Your Research in Place or Must You Create a Research Space? | |
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| The Research-in-Place Path | |
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| The Create-a-Research-Space Path | |
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| How should I begin? | |
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| Framing the territory | |
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| Reviewing the literature | |
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| Curving a research niche, crafting a paper topic | |
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| Making a research claim | |
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| Pre-viewing the paper | |
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| Creating a Research Space for the Historical Jesus with Albert Schweitzer | |
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| Framing the historical Jesus research territory | |
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| Carving a research niche for the historical Jesus | |
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| Reviewing the literature | |
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| Making a research claim | |
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| Pre-viewing the research plan | |
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| From Creating a Theological Research Space to Writing a Research Proposal | |
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| Writing Church History Well: A Theological Writer's Outline | |
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| Concluding Reflections: Writing Theological Research Well (I): Rhetorics of Research and Investigation | |
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| Writing Theological Research Well (II): Rhetorics of Organization and Documentation | |
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| Starting Points | |
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| What Are the Organizational Dynamics of Writing Theological Research Well? | |
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| Building on Your Strengths | |
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| Developing Your Strengths with New Strategies | |
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| Drafting a Preliminary "Map of Completion" | |
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| What Are the Organizational Mechanics of Integrating Reading, Writing, and Research to Write a Theological Research Essay? | |
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| Reading, Writing as/and Research: A Methodical Overview | |
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| Organizing the reading for theological research | |
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| Syntopical Reading Worksheet | |
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| From reading researchfully to taking notes in your own way | |
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| Mapping a research argument | |
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| Integrating Reading, Writing, and Research to Write Theological Research Well | |
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| Summarizing your source/author | |
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| Questioning your source/author | |
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| Talking back to your source/author | |
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| Incorporating your source/author | |
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| Organizing Research to Write a First Draft | |
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| Organizing Research by Outlining | |
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| Organizing Research by Drawing a First Draft | |
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| Organizing Research by Writing | |
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| Writing Theological Research Three Times: A Draft-by-Draft Plan | |
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| The research-driven draft | |
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| The writer-driven draft | |
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| The audience-driven draft | |
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| Writing, Revising, and Rewriting "Between the Drafts" | |
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| Preparing and Presenting the Audience-Driven Draft | |
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| What Are the Requirements for Documenting Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism in a Theological Research Essay? | |
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| Plagiarism Preventions and Interventions | |
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| Plagiarism, paraphrase, or summary? | |
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| A cross-cultural caveat | |
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| Preventing plagiarism as a theological task | |
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| Plagiarism Prevention and Intervention Checklist | |
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| Writing Theological Footnotes Well | |
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| From writing to citing footnotes well | |
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| Documenting Print Sources in Turabian Style: Overview | |
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| Documenting Electronic Sources in Turabian Style: Overview | |
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| To footnote or not to footnote? | |
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| Keeping footnotes in their place | |
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| Some Concluding Guidelines for Writing Theological Footnotes Well | |
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| A Checklist for Final Preparation of a Theological Research Paper | |
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| Concluding Reflections: Writing Theological Research Well (II) | |
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| Writing the Biblical Essay Well (I): Rhetorics of Exegesis and Interpretation | |
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| Starting Points | |
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| Writing the Biblical Exegesis Well: Preliminary Questions | |
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| What Is Biblical Exegesis? | |
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| Why Do Biblical Scholars Write Exegesis? | |
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| How Does Biblical Exegesis Differ from the Theological Genres That We Have Encountered So Far? | |
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| What written biblical exegesis is Not | |
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| What written biblical exegesis Is | |
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| What Kinds of Papers Are Assigned in Biblical Studies Courses, and How Shall We Write Them? | |
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| Writing Biblical Exegesis Well: Preliminary Strategies | |
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| Writing the Critical-Historical Exegesis Well in Twelve Exegetical Memos | |
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| From Writing Exegetical Memos to Writing the Biblical Exegesis Well | |
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| Building a Rhetorical Framework by Beading an Exegetical Necklace | |
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| Identifying the thread | |
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| Stringing the beads | |
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| Beading the necklace: "Text first" or "context first"? | |
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| Clasping the necklace | |
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| A Biblical Writer's Checklist for an Exegesis Paper | |
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| Documenting Sources in SBL Style | |
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| Concluding Reflections: Writing the Biblical Exegesis Well | |
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| Writing the Biblical Essay Well (II): A Critical-Hermeneutical Rhetoric | |
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| Starting Points | |
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| A Hermeneutical Preface | |
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| Hermeneutics as Reading the Word and Reading the World | |
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| From the Critical-Historical Biblical Essay to the Critical-Hermeneutical Biblical Essay: A Hermeneutical Flow Chart | |
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| E. D. Hirsch's Author-Centered Hermeneutic | |
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| Resources for writing the biblical exegesis/essay well | |
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| Hans-Georg Gadamer's Subject-Centered Hermeneutic | |
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| Resources for writing the biblical exegesis/essay well | |
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| Paul Ricoeur's Reader-Centered Hermeneutic | |
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| Resources for writing the biblical exegesis/essay well | |
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| The Writer-Centered Hermeneutic | |
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| The Critical-Hermeneutical Path for Writing the Biblical Essay Well | |
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| Introducing the Biblical Essay: Definitions and Distinguishing Features | |
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| What Is a Critical-Hermeneutical Essay and How Shall We Write It? | |
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| The Biblical Essay: A Critical-Hermeneutical Map | |
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| Literary-Linguistic Locations | |
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| Historical Investigations | |
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| Theological Formulations | |
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| Hermeneutical Destinations | |
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| From Critical-Hermeneutical Memos to the Critical-Hermeneutical Essay: Outlining a Critical Framework, Building a Hermeneutical Bridge | |
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| Outlining a Critical Framework | |
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| Identifying the recurring threads | |
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| Choosing the rhetorical string | |
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| Stringing the beads | |
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| Building Critical-Hermeneutical Bridges by Writing the Biblical Essay Well | |
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| Building rhetorical bridges with writing | |
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| Building contextual bridges with sociocultural models | |
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| Building hermeneutical bridges with cross-disciplinary conversations | |
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| Building dialogical bridges through a hermeneutics of diversity | |
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| Concluding Reflections: From Building Hermeneutical Bridges to Finding Your Own Words | |
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| Toward a Theological Style and Voice of Your Own | |
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| Writing with Theological Imagination Well: Rhetorics of Analogy, Metaphor, and Symbol | |
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| Starting Points | |
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| What Is the Theological Imagination and How Shall We Write with It? | |
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| What Are the Rhetorics that Empower the Theological Imagination? | |
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| Writing with Analogy Well | |
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| Analogy: An Introduction | |
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| Analogy: A Preliminary Definition | |
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| Analogy: Classical Approaches | |
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| Analogy: Contemporary Approaches | |
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| Writing with Analogy Well: A Writer-Based Guide | |
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| Writing analogy well as analogical method, or rhetoric | |
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| Writing analogy well with analogical speech and syntax | |
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| Writing with Metaphor Well | |
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| Metaphor: An Introduction | |
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| Metaphor: The Word-Based Approach | |
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| Metaphor: The Sentence-Based Approach | |
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| Toward a Writer-Based Approach to Metaphor | |
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| Writing with Metaphor Well: A Writer-Based Guide | |
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| Building a Bridge from Metaphor to Symbol: An Interlude | |
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| Writing with Symbol Well | |
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| Symbol: An Introduction | |
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| Definitions of Symbol: Four Starting Points | |
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| Sign-based definition of symbol | |
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| Meaning-based definition of symbol | |
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| Mediation-based definition of symbol | |
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| Text-based definition of symbol | |
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| Writing with Symbol Well: A Writer-Based Guide | |
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| Discovering the symbol | |
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| Developing the symbol | |
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| Dialoguing with the symbol | |
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| Deconstructing the symbol | |
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| Reconstructing the symbol | |
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| Concluding Reflections: Writing with Theological Imagination Well | |
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| Rewriting Theology Well (I): Rhetorics of Style and Voice | |
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| Starting Points | |
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| What Is "Style," and How Do Writers Define It? | |
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| Style Is "How You Write" | |
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| Style Is "How You Write What You Write" | |
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| Style Is "How You Write What You Write When You Write in a Given Genre" | |
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| Style Is "How You Write What You Write When You Write from a Stance" | |
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| Style Is "How You Write What You Write When You Write for an Audience" | |
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| What Is Theological Style, Narrowly Conceived, and How Do Theological Writers Define It? | |
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| Saint Augustine | |
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| Thomas Aquinas | |
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| Julian of Norwich | |
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| What Is Theological Style, Broadly Conceived, and How Do Theological Writers Define It? | |
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| What is Theological Style, Broadly Conceived, and How Shall We Define it? | |
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| What Is Voice and the Relationship between Style and Voice in Theological Writing? | |
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| What Is Voice? | |
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| What Is the Relationship between Style and Voice in Theological Writing? | |
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| Toward a Theological Voice of One's Own | |
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| How Does One Identify, Develop, and Refine a Theological Voice of One's Own? | |
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| Theological Plain Style: A Profile for Theological Writers | |
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| Characteristics of Theological Plain Style for Theological Writers | |
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| Inclusive Language Style Sheet for Theological Writers | |
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| Concluding Reflections: Rewriting Theology Well: Rhetorics of Style and Voice | |
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| Rewriting Theology Well (II): Rhetorics of Words, Sentences, and Paragraphs | |
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| Starting Points | |
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| What Do Theological Words Do? Finding, Choosing, and Using Words Well to Write Theology Well | |
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| The Parts of Speech and Their Place in Theological Prose | |
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| Nouns | |
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| Verbs | |
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| Choosing Theological Words Well-A Selective Sampling | |
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| Concrete words | |
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| Conceptual words | |
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| Critical words | |
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| Constructed words | |
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| Figurative words | |
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| Choosing and Using Words: A Theological Writer's Checklist | |
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| What Do Theological Sentences Do? Writing Sentences Well to Write Theological Sentences Well | |
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| Do You Like Sentences? | |
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| How to Write Sentences Well: A Brief Review | |
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| Capitalizing and punctuating sentences correctly | |
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| Ordering sentences clearly and coherently | |
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| Combining sentence elements skillfully | |
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| Correcting sentence errors effectively | |
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| Constructing sentences fluently | |
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| Writing Theological Sentences Well: A Historical Introduction | |
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| What do Theological Sentences Do? | |
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| They ask questions | |
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| The make assertions | |
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| They define terms | |
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| They compare and contrast theological subject matter | |
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| They summarize and synthesize | |
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| Writing Sentences Well: A Theological Writer's Checklist | |
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| What Do Theological Paragraphs Do? Writing Paragraphs Well to Write a Theological Paper Well | |
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| Unity | |
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| Coherence | |
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| Emphasis | |
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| The Long and the Short of It | |
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| Writing Paragraphs with Unity, Coherence, and Emphasis: A Revision Heuristic | |
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| Final Considerations | |
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| What Do Theological Paragraphs Do? Writing Theological Paragraphs Well with Elsa Tamez and Jon Sobrino | |
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| Introductory paragraphs | |
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| Expository paragraphs | |
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| Evidential paragraphs | |
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| Transitional paragraphs | |
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| Concluding paragraphs | |
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| Writing Paragraphs Well: A Theological Writer's Checklist | |
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| Concluding Reflections: Writing Theological Words, Sentences, and Paragraphs Well | |
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| Rewriting Theology Well (III): A Rhetoric of Revision | |
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| Starting Points | |
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| Rewriting, Revision, and Becoming Your Own Best Editor | |
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| The Chopping Block | |
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| The Writing Patch | |
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| Waiting | |
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| Watering | |
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| Fertilizing | |
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| Grafting | |
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| Creating the conditions | |
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| Back to the Drawing Board | |
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| A Theological Style and Voice of Your Own | |
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| The Peer Editing Heuristic | |
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| Editing for Grammatical Grace | |
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| A Revision Heuristic of Your Own | |
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| Concluding Reflections: Rewriting Theology Well | |
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| Epilogue: Writing Theology Well in Your New Context: From Writing for Professors to Writing with a Professional Voice | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |